Morning News

Good morning...

Well, a pretty average day, yesterday.

We had three PBS selections and only one of those got placed but...

Betfair did pay 21.0 for the place so,

All in all,

Quite a decent return.

Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Yesterday's Results

Yesterday's Results, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 25.93%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 25%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 23.33% from all 30 Races (including previously unrated races.)

The Overall Profit Index. If you had blindly backed every top three rated horse in all of the races you would have had 39.34 units returned to 81 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -51.43%

Top Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the top rated horses from 27 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 19.49 units returned to 27 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -27.81%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the second rated horses from 25 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 6.75 units returned to 25 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -73%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the third rated horses from 29 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 13.1 units returned to 29 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -54.83%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 11:30:00 - The CSF paid £14.29

Lingfield (AW) 14:15:00 - The CSF paid £5.20

Reverse Forecasts

There was 1 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Ludlow 13:30:00 - The CSF paid £9.59

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Newbury 15:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £16.30

Winners

From the 28 rated races there were 12 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 1 of those was at a nice price.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Lingfield (AW)	14:50	Cotillion (9)	6.00	6.60

The Portfolio

There was neither a Banker's Bet nor a Chancer's Bet yesterday.

On the Portfolio Page there is now a link to the Banker's Bet Proofing Page and, also to the Chancer's Bet proofing page.

You may subscribe to my Portfolio. To do so, you need to go to your Members Page and change option 4 on the Your Profile bit.

If you haven't subscribed, the button will say Yes - just click on it and you'll be signed up.

Place Betting Strategy

Ludlow 12:20:00 - Sandford Castle - Unplaced
Newbury 13:15:00 - Kid Kalanisi - 3rd - Betfair paid 21.0 for the place.
Ludlow 15:10:00 - Miss Crick - Unplaced

We made a profit of 17 points on the day and have made a profit of 28.946 points for December.

For the new strategy we made a profit of 10.848 points on the day an have made a profit of 18.598557 points for December.

I have added a new section to the spreadsheet to indicate the results should we ignore the odds on selections.

For the refined strategy (the one that you should be using) we made a profit of 12.204 points on the day and have made a profit of 21.101394 points for December.

The spreadsheet of all of the results is available at… http://focusratings.com/data/PBSDec.xls

Something to make you laugh

Murder at The Safeway

Tired of being broke and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decides to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife, with himself as beneficiary, and arranging to have her killed.

A "friend of a friend" put him in touch with a nefarious underworld figure that went by the name of "Artie."

Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $5,000.

The husband said he was willing to pay that amount but he wouldn't have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money.

Artie insisted on being paid something up front. The man opened up his wallet, displaying a single dollar bill that rested inside.

Artie sighed, rolled his eyes, and reluctantly agreed to accept the dollar as down payment for the dirty deed.

A few days later, Artie followed the man's wife into the local Safeway grocery store.

There he surprised her in the produce department and proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands.

As the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath and slumped to the floor, the manager of the produce department stumbled onto the scene.

Unwilling to leave any witnesses behind, Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well.

Unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings was captured by hidden cameras and observed by the store's security guard, who immediately called the police.

Artie was caught and arrested before he could leave the store.

Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the sordid plan, including his financial arrangements with the hapless husband.

And that is why the next day in the newspaper, the headlines declared:

"ARTIE CHOKES TWO FOR A DOLLAR AT SAFEWAY"

Today

Today's early test ratings show 27 rated races from four meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

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